shopsnax.blogg.se - Snood crossword

Some examples are hooks, lines, sinkers, floats, rods, reels, baits, lures, spears, nets, gaffs, traps, waders and tackle boxes. Almost any equipment or gear used for fishing can be called fishing tackle. Here's the definition of TACKLE:įishing tackle is the equipment used by anglers when fishing.

You can't list POLE *alongside* TACKLE when It Is TACKLE. It's not a separate item, it is All The Other Items. Did you just want to get the pseudo-current but actually dated FIDGET SPINNER in there? But I haven't yet mentioned the biggest problem, and that's TACKLE. CLICKBAIT, JAILBAIT, I don't know, be creative. Having REEL but not ROD felt odd, but the bigger problem was SPINNER, which is not nearly as solidly iconic as the other fishing words (it's a kind of. a boringish theme like this needs a zazzy revealer, and FISH is about the least zazzy imaginable. There's a decent, albeit dated and time-worn, concept here, right? Last words are all part of X group. When that wouldn't fit, my brain (apparently forgetting the exact wording of the clue) just toggled to the next plausible answer that fit.īut let's leave my floundering aside for a moment and talk about the theme, which just doesn't work. I wrote in OUTTAKE REEL at 47A: Series of funny outtakes ( BLOOPER REEL). Then is it COLA or SODA at 40D: Fizzy, sugarless beverage ( DIET SODA)? And is it IONE or IONA at 65A: College in New Rochelle, N.Y? Worst wound was totally self-inflicted, though. Also wrote in ANGRY for 16A: Livid, which is total amateur hour of course it's IRATE, it's always IRATE. I think my futon in grad school was on a slatted frame of some kind. I had SLA- and thought "they don't mean SLAT, do they?" I just couldn't process it, largely because I haven't seen or slept on a SLATted bed in a long time.

First, 1A: Part of a bed's base ( SLAT) made No sense to me.